On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:17:29PM -0800, David Lawler Christiansen (NT) wrote:
> No offense, but this article is old news, speculative and misleading in
> places.  It has nothing to do with MS's use of Kerberos in Passport
> (which is what Ice is asking, I think), and only questions whether our
> Kerberos implementation will interoperate with any other implementation.
> The simple question I must ask in this case is, "have you TRIED it?"
>  
> My experience is that everyone who insists that we don't interoperate is
> either speculating, mistaken, or outright lying.  We interop just fine,
> either as a client, a server, or as a KDC, in single and multiple-realm

The only caveat has to do with running win2k/winxp clients with non-MS
KDCs, of course: IIRC you lose some features in that all accounts have
to be local SAM accounts...

> scenarios.  If you don't believe me, hunt down someone with Win2K and/or
> WinXP, or get on the beta program for .NET server.  Run your own tests
> and draw your own conclusions-- don't just believe the spin.  
>  
> Thanks!
> -Dave
>  

Cheers,

Nico
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